THE NEW YOR.KER. think I ever saw on a man's face." Jameson died of a fever on the way back from this excursion, on the same day that Stanley arrived in Banalia. It is a testimony to Stanley's great- ness as a leader of men that within four days of encountering this debacle he had begun to move what was left of the rear column to Lake Albert. He reached the lake in the middle of J anu- ary, 1889. By that time, the Mahdi's troops had occupied half of Equatoria, and the issue of creating a new colony -whether for Léopold or for the Brit- ish-was moot. However, Emin began vacillating about whether or not to leave the province. Stanley's patience, never his strong suit, gave out. He announced that he would begin a march to the east coast on the morning of April 10th, with or without Emin and his people. At this, Emin finally decided to be "rescued," and the cara- van, when it left, consisted of some fifteen hundred people and stretched for four miles. In December, the expedi- tion reached the town of Bagamoyo, on the Indian Ocean. This town had a German military governor, who wel- comed Emin as one of his own. It was clear that Emin wanted nothing more to do with Stanley, and soon after reaching Bagamoyo he accepted em- ployment with the German govern- ment for a thousand pounds a year. In his new job, he was asked to return to the region around Lake Victoria to secure the territory for Germany. After reaching the lake, Emin headed west toward Stanley Falls, on the Congo. He seems to have wanted to follow Stanley's route to the Atlantic. On October 23, 1892, while he was sitting in his tent in the Ituri forest surround- ed by the specimens of birds and insects he loved to collect, he was seized and brutally murdered by Arab slavers. The Egyptian government eventually agreed to pay about fifty-two hundred pounds in back salary, some of it to his long-abandoned common-law wife in Europe and the rest to his Abyssinian daughter, Ferida. S TANLEY returned to Britain a hero. He was offered a knighthood by Queen Victoria, which he had to re- fuse: it turned out that he had become an American citizen in 1885, to protect his American royalties. But quite apart from this, Stanley had always presented himself as an American: an American flag invariably flew over his tent, and many of the references in his books have American nuances. (Residents of N ew York City might note Stanley's lament in "In Darkest Africa" when his view of Lake Edward is interrupted by fog. He writes, "And oh! what might have been seen had we but known one of those marvellously clear days, with the deep purified azure and that dazzling transparency of ether so common to New York!") Among the letters of congratulation waiting for him was one from Dorothy Tennant, to which Stanley made no answer. Nor did he follow up on her invitation to visit her. More letters followed, until Stanley saw fit to reply. They were married on July 12,1890, in Westmin- ster Abbey. His surviving companions from the expedition were his grooms- men. Late in life, Alice Pike seems to have decided that she, too, had made a mistake. She confesses as much, in a four-hundred-page manuscript that Mr. Bierman uncovered. In it, she confesses that if Stanley had only "kid- napped" her he would have won her over, and she refers to him as "one of Nature's gentlemen." Stanley's marriage seems to have been a happy one. He and Dorothy settled into a town house in Whitehall. In 1892, his wife persuaded him to give up his American citizenship, so that he could eventually be knighted-as he was, in 1899. In 1896, they adopted a boy from Stanley's home district in Wales, whom they named Denzil Morton. Stanley served a not very dis- tinguished term in Parliament, begin- ning in 1895. By that time, his health, which had suffered terribly in Africa, was beginning to fail. He and his wife remodelled a rambling mock-Tudor manor in Surrey as a country retreat. She named a stream on the property Stanley Pool, to remind him of the Congo. He died in Whitehall, on the morning of May 10, 1904. His last words, upon hearing Big Ben strike four, were, "So that is Time! Strange." He had told his wife that he wanted to be buried in Westminster Abbey, next to Livingstone. The Dean of W est- minster, Joseph Armitage Robinson, refused the request. - JEREMY BERNSTEIN . NEW YORK'S MOMA SHOWS MODERN ART - Tulsa World. What next? 107 Now in paperback! by the author of Love's Executioner the first book to share the dual reflections of psychiatrist and patient " '" t Everv Dav ets a little Qosèr 11\\ irr.fo I I m . ' . ' ....,'" "" .. " >Ø "\ '\. 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